The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
JAMES MADISONAmericans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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Philosophy is common sense with big words.
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
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All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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